“Obama: “The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff ... ....”
Absolutely a dopey response by Odunga. Why would Gruber take a small potato’s 170k a year staff Gubermint job when he could bilk 6 million over just a couple of years from various Gubermint entities as a contractor.
“...never on our staff...” — lawyerly slick parsing, but nowhere near as god as Der Schlickmeister could do.